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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
First International Conference on Multiagent Systems - ICMAS '95

June 12 - 14, 1995
San Francisco, California

The First International Conference on Multiagent Systems will be held  June
12-14 of 1995 in San Francisco.  Organized as a joint effort of the North
American Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) community, the Japanese
Multi-Agent and Cooperative Computing (MACC) community, and the European
Modeling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World (MAAMAW) community with
support from AAAI, IJCAI and Keihanna Interaction Plaza Inc. It is also
sanctioned by ECCAI. ICMAS-95 will be a three-day conference combining a strong
technical program of highly reviewed papers (53 papers with an acceptance rate
of 33%) together with invited talks (7) and panels. There will also be tutorials
presented on June 11, the day before the official start of the conference. 

Multiagent Systems are computational systems in which several semi-autonomous
agents interact or work together to perform some set of  tasks or satisfying
some set of goals. These systems may involve  computational agents that are
homogeneous or heterogeneous, they may  involve activity on the part of agents
having common goals or goals that  are distinct, and they may involve
participation on the part of humans  and intelligent computational agents.
Research and practice on these  systems generally focuses on problem solving,
communication, and coordination aspects, as distinct from low-level
parallelization or synchronization issues that are more the focus of distributed
computing.

The design, implementation, and assessment of multiagent systems raises many
specific issues.  These include how to develop coordination strategies that
enable groups of agents to solve problems effectively, negotiation mechanisms
that serve to bring a collection of agents to an acceptable state, conflict
detection and resolution strategies, protocols by which agents may communicate
and reason about inter-agent communications, and mechanisms whereby agents can
maintain autonomy while still contributing to overall system effectiveness.
Topics of interests that will be the focus of conference papers include:

      Agent architectures
      Artificial life (from a multiagent perspective)
      Believable Agents
      Cooperation, coordination, and conflict
      Communication issues
      Conceptual and theoretical foundations of multiagent systems
      Development and engineering methodologies
      Distributed artificial intelligence
      Distributed consensus and algorithms for multiagent
           interaction
      Distributed search
      Evaluation of multiagent systems
      Integrated testbeds and development environments
      Intelligent agents in enterprise integration systems
           and similar types of applications
      Learning and adaptation in multiagent systems
      Multiagent cooperative reasoning from distributed heterogeneous
           databases
      Multiagent planning and planning for multiagent worlds
      Negotiation strategies - in both competitive and cooperative
           situations
      Organization, organizational knowledge, and organization self-design
      Practical applications of multiagent systems (enterprises,
           robotics, sensing, manufacturing, IVHS etc.)
      Resource allocation in multiagent systems
      Social structures and their significance in multiagent systems
      User interface issues for multiagent systems

Up-to-date Information

     A Mosaic page (http://ICMAS.cs.umass.edu/ICMAS) can be accessed for the
most up-to-date information on the conference including as it becomes available
information on hotel and travel arrangements, tutorials and the technical
program.

Hotel Arrangements

     The conference will be held at San Francisco Hilton and Towers
(415-771-1400).  There are a block of rooms set aside for conference
participants at a special convention rate only until May 11,1995 (or while they
last). Reservations received after this date will be accepted based on
availability. Please indicate when you are making room arrangements that you
will be attending the International Conference on Multiagent Systems in order to
get the convention rate. (Note that the reduced conference rate will also apply
to the three days preceding and the three days following the conference days, if
when you book there are rooms available.)

General Chair:
	Victor R. Lesser
	Computer and Information Science Department
	University of Massachusetts
	Amherst, MA 01003
	(413) 545-1322
	icmas-95@cs.umass.edu

Program Co-Chairs:

North America:
      Susan E. Conry
      Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
      Clarkson University
      Box 5720
      Potsdam, NY 13676-5720
      (315) 268-6510
      conry@sun.soe.clarkson.edu

Europe:
      Yves Demazeau
      Laboratoire LIFIA/IMAG
      46 Avenue Felix Viallet
      F-38031 Grenoble cx
      FRANCE
      +33 76574654
      Yves.Demazeau@imag.fr

Pacific Rim:
      Mario Tokoro
      Keio University / Sony CSL
      Department of Computer Science
      3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku
      Yokohama 223 JAPAN
      +81-45-560-1153
      mario@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp 

Local Arrangements:
      Evangelos Simoudis
      IBM Almaden
      (408) 927-2215
      simoudis@almaden.ibm.com

Advisory Committee:

      John Campbell (England)
      Christiano Castelfranchi (Italy)
      Susan E. Conry (USA)
      Yves Demazeau (France)
      Edmund Durfee (USA)
      Jacques Ferber (France)
      Les Gasser (USA)
      Michael Georgeff (Australia)
      Carl Hewitt (USA)
      Michael N. Huhns (USA)
      Toru Ishida (Japan)
      Victor Lesser (USA)
      Jean-Pierre Muller (Switzerland)
      Jeffrey Rosenschein (Israel)
      Evangelos Simoudis (USA)
      Katia Sycara (USA)
      Mario Tokoro (Japan)


Program Committee:

     John Campbell (England)
     Christiano Castelfranchi (Italy) 
     Helder Coelho (Portugal)
     Phil Cohen (USA)
     Edmund Durfee (USA)
     Jacques Ferber (France)
     Mark Fox (Canada)
     Les Gasser (USA)
     Michael Georgeff (Australia)
     Carl Hewitt (USA)
     Bernardo Huberman (USA)
     Michael Huhns (USA)
     Toru Ishida (Japan)
     Nick Jennings (England)	
     Sarit Kraus (Israel)
     Christian Lemaitre (Mexico)
     Frank von Martial (Germany)
     Jean Pierre Muller (Switzerland)
     Hideyuki Nakashima (Japan)
     Van Parunak (USA)
     Jeffrey Rosenschein (Israel)	
     Evangelos Simoudis (USA)
     Donald Steiner (Germany)
     Luc Steels (Belgium)
     Toshiharu Sugawara (Japan)
     Katia Sycara (USA)



=====================REGISTRATION FORM====================

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (ICMAS-95)
                                               REGISTRATION FORM

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Mark applicable fees:
		   Early Registration Rate           Late Registration Rates	 
		   Postmarked by April 20	      Postmarked by May 19
		        Regular / Student	             Regular / Student
Technical Program*    $300 / $125                            $350 / $150
June 12-15, 1995	

Tutorials (with Technical Program Registration)
Half-day	                $50  /  $25                              $75  /  $35 
Full-day                       $100  /  $25                            $125  /
$35 

Tutorials (without Technical Program Registration)
Half-day 	               $100  /  $25                          $125  /  $35 
Full-day                        $150  /  $25                          $175  /
$35 

IF REGISTERING FOR TUTORIALS, MAKE SELECTION(S) HERE:
Morning Sessions (limit: 1)                Afternoon Sessions (limit: 1)
__ A. Intro. to MAS, Part 1                     __ D. Intro. to MAS, Part 2
__ B. Intelligent Agents                          __ E. Formal Methods in MAS
__ C. Business Process Re-                     __ F. MAS Tools & Techniques
     Engineering &  Coordination Support

Tutorial Registration includes Notes; Notes alone will be available for purchase
on site.
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Reception*, Monday June 12
Total
Number of guests, at $15 each ____			                  $

Dinner*, Tuesday, June 13
Number of guests, at $50 each ____	                                          $

*Your technical program registration fee includes: 
     1 copy of proceedings, 1 ticket to reception and dinner for registrant.
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TOTAL DUE  $
Note:
Registrations received after May 19 are subject to on-site rates. 
The refund request deadline is May 26, 1995. 
A $75 processing fee will be assessed for all refunds.

Please Make Check Payable to ICMAS-95 in U.S. Dollars and send this form and
your check to:	
            ICMAS-95
	V. Lesser, General Chair
	Computer Science Dept., LGRC, Box 34610
	University of Massachusetts
	Amherst, MA 01003-4610 USA

OR you may pay by credit card by completing the information below:
(PLEASE TYPE):

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FAX the completed registration form to:

ICMAS-95
c/o M. Roberts
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ABSTRACTS OF TUTORIAL SESSIONS

A. INTRODUCTION TO MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (Part 1)
D. INTRODUCTION TO MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (Part 2)

Coordinator: Les Gasser, USC (USA)

This tutorial will be a one-day long, 7-hour introductory Multi-Agent Systems
tutorial, in modules. These modules will cover, at an introductory level,
motivations and applications for multi-agent systems, basic multi-agent systems
problems such as task allocation, coordination, interaction, agent and process
models, disparity resolution, implementation approaches, and engineering
methodologies. Most of the fundamental MAS technologies and models will be
surveyed (e.g., distributed search/CDPS, negotiation, multiagent/distributed
planning, coordination, reasoning about other agents, and so on). Each module
will consist of a presentation of about 30-45 minutes by people well-known and
experienced in each area. The point of this introductory tutorial is to get
people unfamiliar with the range and depth of MAS topics up to speed on the
basic issues and background.

B. INTELLIGENT AGENTS

Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages

Nicholas R. Jennings, Queen Mary & Westfield College (UK), 
Michael Wooldridge, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)

The concept of an agent is now important in both Artificial Intelligence (AI)
and mainstream computer science. In this tutorial, we introduce the key issues
associated with the design and construction of intelligent agents.

This tutorial addresses one of the fastest growing topics within the fields of
computer science, artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems: the design
and implementation of intelligent agents. Thus, the tutorial will combine
material from the traditional multi-agent systems field with fields which are
just starting to use the concept of agents (e.g., inter- face agents,
information agents, believable agents). The tutorial will also serve as an
important form of synthesis - showing the links and inter dependencies between
three of the most important aspects of multi-agent systems research.

We divide these issues into three areas. Agent theory is concerned with the
question of what an agent is, and the use of mathematical formalisms for
representing and reasoning about the properties of agents. Agent architectures
can be thought of as software engineering models of agents; researchers in this
area are primarily concerned with the problem of designing software or hardware
systems that will satisfy the properties specified by the agent theorists.
Finally, agent languages are software systems for programming and experimenting
with agents; these languages may embody principles proposed by theorists. We
provide an overview of each of these areas, focusing particularly on the links
between them.

C. BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING & COORDINATION SUPPORT

Business Process (Re-)Engineering: Methodologies and Multi-Agent Technologies

Mark Klein, Penn State University (USA),
Frank von Martial, DeTeMobile (Germany)

This tutorial provides a thorough treatment of Business Process Reengineering
(BPR) and the collaborative computing technology that can be used to support it,
>from the perspective of multiagents systems research and technologies. We define
BPR quite broadly to include the entire process management life cycle (from
process definition to simulation to enactment to metrics to refinement to reuse
and redesign). Topics to be covered include: what BPR is why it is important
what BPR methodologies work well what process management technology is and how
it can be used to support BPR weaknesses of current process management
technology from the perspective of BPR (e.g. lack of organizational models,
semi-structured processes, rationale capture, integration between different
classes of process management tools, process re-use & re-design support and
run-time exception handling) current research directions for addressing these
gaps (e.g. work on rationale capture, process retrieval and exception handling
technology). 

D. (See A)

E. FORMAL METHODS IN MAS

Theoretical Foundations for Multiagent Systems

Gilad Zlotkin, MIT (USA),
Makoto Yokoo, NTT (JAPAN),
Michael Wellman, Michigan (USA)

This tutorial provides an introduction to the theoretical foundations underlying
common technical approaches to the design of multiagent systems (MASs). The
tutorial consists of three parts, each devoted to an important multiagent
paradigm. 

Search Foundations (Yokoo)
In this section, we first describe basic search formalizations (constraint
satisfaction and path-planning) and associated algorithms. Then, we show how
these formalizations and algorithms can be extended for representing/solving
various MAS problems, such as achieving coherence among agents,
adaptation/learning in unknown environments, etc. The presentation will include
video animations of some of the algorithms. 

Game-Theoretic Models of Interaction (Zlotkin)
In this section we present game-theoretic tools that are useful for the design
of MASs where agents are individually motivated. In such systems, we coordinate
agents' activities by providing incentives for desired behaviors. We start with
some of the basic concepts, such as: individual rationality and equilibrium,
group rationality, and mechanism design. Then, we explore some group decision
theories and their related coordination mechanisms: bargaining theory and
negotiation mechanisms, voting theory and consensus mechanisms, cooperative
games, and coalition formation mechanisms. 

Computational Markets (Wellman) 
In this section we present the basic economics one needs to know in order to
design a computational market system. Topics include the basic theories of
consumer and producer agents, the role of prices, concepts of competitive
behavior, market equilibria, auction mechanisms, and more. By way of examples,
we consider how to cast real-world resource allocation and planning problems in
market terms.

F. MAS TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES

Multi-Agent Systems Tools and Research Methods

Coordinator TBA

This tutorial will cover the variety of tools and research methods available for
building and experimenting with practical and experimental multiagent systems,
for both academic research and for real-world applications. Languages,
frameworks, platforms, technologies and tools such as KQML, Agent-0, NET-GBB,
Telescript, Articulator, VDT, SPARKLE, KOD, EZ-SIM, ACTION, etc. will be
covered.

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INVITED SPEAKER TALKS -- ICMAS '95 

"Blissful Ignorance: Knowing Just Enough to Coordinate Well"
Edmund H. Durfee, EECS Department, University of Michigan 

"Computational Organization Research"
Les Gasser, IMPACT Lab School of Engineering, USC

"Parallel, Distributed and Multi-Agent Production Systems: A Research Foundation
for Distributed Artificial Intelligence"
Toru Ishida, Department of Information Science, Kyoto University 

"Developing Industrial Multi-Agent Systems"
N. R. Jennings, Distributed AI Unit, Dept of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary
& Westfield College, University of London

"Multiagent Planning as a Social Process: Voting, Privacy, and Manipulation"
Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, Institute of Computer Science, Hebrew University,
Jerusalem

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Agents"
Yoav Shoham, Computer Science Dept., Stanford University

"Coordination of Multiple Intelligent Agents in the Infosphere"
Katia Sycara, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

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LIST OF PAPERS TO BE PRESENTED IN THE TECHNICAL PROGRAM:

FORMAL APPROACHES (12)
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	Game Theoretic Approaches (6)
	Formal agent Frameworks (2)
	Reasoning about Knowledge and Belief (4)

AGENT SOCIETIES (8)
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	Multi-agent, Collaborative Interfaces (3)
	Emergent Behaviors (2)
	Social Commitment (3)

BUILDING AGENTS: TOOLS FOR SPECIFICATION AND COORDINATION (10)
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	Testbeds and Specification Tools (4)
	Coordination Tools (3)
	KQML (3)

APPLICATIONS (8)
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	General Applications (4)
	Robotics (4)

DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS (10)
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	Multi-Agent Planning (4)
	Distributed Search (4)
	Distributed Constraint Satisfaction (4)

MARKET-BASED APPROACHES (5)
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	Market-based Coordination (3)
	Resource Contention (2)


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FORMAL APPROACHES (12)
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	GAME THEORETIC APPROACHES (6)

Time and the prisoner's dilemma 
 Yishay Mor and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein 

Introducing Blind Hunger Dilemma 
 C. Numaoka 

Coordination without Communication: Experimental Validation of Focal Point
Techniques 
 M. Fenster, S. Kraus, J. S. Rosenchein 

A Game-Theoretic Account of Cooperation in Communication 
 K. Hasida, K. Nagao, and T. Miyata 

A Rigorous, Operational Formalization of Recursive Modeling 
 Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz and Edmund H. Durfee 

Recursive Agent Modeling using Limited Rationality 
 Jose M. Vidal and Edmund H. Durfee 


	FORMAL AGENT FRAMEWORKS (2)

A Formal Framework for Agency and Autonomy 
 Michael Luck and Mark d'Inverno 

BDI Agents: from theory to practice 
 A. Rao and M. Georgeff 

	REASONING ABOUT KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF (4)

Generalised Proof-theoretic Multi-agent Autoepistemic Reasoning 
 Yongyuth Aramkulchai and Y.J.Jiang  

Multiagent Reasoning with Belief Contexts II: Elaboration Tolerance 
 A. Cimatti, L. Serafini 

Towards a Pragmatic Theory of Interactions 
 A. Haddadi 

Reasoning about belief based on common knowledge of observability of actions 
 Hideki Isozaki 


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AGENT SOCIETIES (8)
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	MULTI-AGENT, COLLABORATIVE INTERFACES (3)

Multiagent collaboration in directed improvisation 
 B. Hayes-Roth and L. Brownston 

Communication for conflict resolution in multi-agent collaborative planning 
 Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Sandra Carberry 

PARAgente: Exploring the Issues in Agent-Based User Interfaces 
 J. A. Sanchez, F.S. Azevedo, & J.J. Leggett 

	EMERGENT BEHAVIORS (2)

The Emergence of Cooperation in a Society of Autonomous Agents 
 Akira Ito and Hiroyuki Yano 

Understanding the Emergence of Conventions in Multi-Agent Systems 
 A. Walker, M.Wooldridge 

	SOCIAL COMMITMENT (3)

Commitments: from individual intentions to groups and organizations 
 Cristiano Castelfranchi 

Deciding when to commit to action during observation-based coordination 
 Marcus J. Huber and Edmund H. Durfee 

Exploiting Social Reasoning to Deal with Agency Level Inconsistency 
 J. Sichman and Y. Demazeau 


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BUILDING AGENTS: TOOLS FOR SPECIFICATION AND COORDINATION (10)
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	TESTBEDS AND SPECIFICATION TOOLS (4)

Formal Specification of Multi-Agent Systems: a Real-World Case 
 F. Brazier, B. Dunin-Keplicz, N. Jennings, J. Treur 

How Agents Do It In Stream Logic Programming 
 Matthew M Huntbach, Nick R Jennings and Graem A Ringwood 

The DRESUN Testbed for Research in FA/C Distributed Situation Assessment: 
Extensions to the Model of External Evidence 
 N. Carver and V. Lesser 

Understanding Cooperation: an Agent's Perspective 
 Andreas Lux, Donald Steiner 

	COORDINATION TOOLS (3)

Designing a Family of Coordination Algorithms 
 Keith Decker and Victor Lesser 

A Tool For Coordinating Autonomous Agents With Conflicting Goals 
 Love Ekenberg, Magnus Boman, Mats Danielson 

A Cooperation Language 
 Michael Kolb 

	KQML (3)

Communicative Actions for Artificial Agents 
 Philip R. Cohen and Hector J. Levesque 

COOL: A Language for Describing Coordination in Multiagent Systems 
 Mihai Barbuceanu and Mark S. Fox 

On using KQML for Matchmaking 
 Daniel Kuokka and Larry Harada 


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APPLICATIONS (8)
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	GENERAL APPLICATIONS (4)

A Multi-Agent Intelligent Design System Integrating Manufacturing and
Shop-Floor
Control 
 Sivaram Balasubramanian and Douglas H. Norrie  

A Model For Cooperative Transportation Scheduling 
 K. Fischer, J.P.Mueller, M. Pischel 

A Multiagent System for Controlling Building Environments 
 B. A. Huberman and S. H. Clearwater 

DIDE: A Multi-Agent Environment for Engineering Design 
 Weiming Shen, Jean-Paul Barthes 

	ROBOTICS (4)

Motor Schema-based Formation Control for Multiagent Robot Teams 
 Tucker Balch and Ronald C. Arkin 

Unsupervised Multi-Agent Exploration Of Structured Environments 
 Dario Maio, Stefano Rizzi 

Recursive Agent and Agent-Group Tracking in a Real-time Dynamic Environment 
 Milind Tambe 

Hierarchical and Lateral Coordination in MAS : An analysis of Message Traffic
Flow 
 Alois Knoll, J. Meinkoehn 


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DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS (10)
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	MULTI-AGENT PLANNING (4)

A Tractable Heuristic That Maximizes Global Utility Through Local Plan
Combination 
 Eithan Ephrati, Martha Pollack, and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein 

Synchronizing Multiagent Plans using Temporal Logic Specifications 
 Froduald Kabanza 

A Metalevel Coordination Strategy for Reactive Cooperative Planning 
 E. Osawa 

Reusing past plans in distributed planning 
 Toshiharu Sugawara 

	DISTRIBUTED SEARCH (4)

Knowledge-Based Distributed Search Using Teamwork 
 Joerg Denzinger 

Two is not Always Better than One: 
Experiences in Real-Time Bidirectional Search 
 Toru Ishida 

Unsupervised Surrogate Agents and Search Bias Change in Flexible Distributed
Scheduling 
 Sandip Sen and Edmund H. Durfee 

Distributed Scheduling of Multiagent Communication 
 Y. Xiang 

	DISTRIBUTED CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION (4)

Forming Coalitions for Breaking Deadlocks 
 Katsutoshi Hirayama and Jun'ichi Toyoda 

Exploiting Problem Structure for Distributed Constaint Optimization 
 JyiShane Liu and Katia Sycara 


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MARKET-BASED APPROACHES (5)
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	MARKET-BASED COORDINATION (3)

A Simple Computational Market for Network Information Services 
 T. Mullen and P. Wellman 

Issues in Automated Negotiation and Electronic Commerce: 
Extending the Contract Net Framework 
 Tuomas Sandholm and Victor Lesser 

Self Organizational Approach for Integration of Distributed Expert Systems 
 Tatsuaki Itoh, Takashi Watanabe, and Takahira Yamaguchi 

	RESOURCE CONTENTION (2)

Dilemmas in computational societies 
 N.S. Glance and T. Hogg 

Resource contention in multiagent systems 
 M. Youssefmir and B.A. Huberman 

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